¹And Elihu answered and said,

²Do you reckon this to be justice? You said, My righteousness is more than God's.

³For you say, What use is it to you? What do I profit from my sin?

⁴I will respond to you with words, and to your friends with you.

⁵Look at the skies and see; observe the clouds — they are higher than you.

⁶If you have sinned, what do you do to him? And if your transgressions are many, what can you make happen to him?

⁷If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

⁸Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, and your righteousness is for a son of man.

⁹Under the multitude of oppressions they cry out; they cry for help from the arm of the great.

¹⁰But no one says, Where is God my maker, who puts songs in the night,

¹¹Who teaches us more than the livestock of the land, and makes us wiser than the birds of the skies?

¹²There they cry out, but he does not answer, before the pride of the wicked.

¹³Surely God does not hear emptiness, and the Almighty does not regard it.

¹⁴How much more when you say you do not observe him: the case is before him, so wait anxiously for him.

¹⁵And now, because his anger has not punished, he has not recognized folly, however great.

¹⁶And Job opens his mouth in vapor; without knowledge he multiplies words.